: a government office for examining claims to patents and granting patents
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Recent Examples on the WebThe patent office, however, approved Hensley’s request in January 2018.Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022 The judge rejected Ocado arguments that the patents covered old ideas, or that AutoStore committed fraud on the patent office to obtain the patents. Susan Decker, Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2021 The patent office approved a general patent for a design from which Dell looks to borrow elements. Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 Aug. 2022 On top of this, plan to record all assignments at the patent office, which will keep the official ledger for ownership of your patent rights. Wen Xie, Forbes, 17 June 2022 For example, some countries, like China, require that their nationals file patents with the Chinese patent office first before anywhere else. Wen Xie, Forbes, 17 June 2022 But the Nobel Prize committee and the patent office operate under different standards, said Jacob Sherkow, a University of Illinois College of Law professor who has closely followed the dispute. Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2022 Perhaps this explains why the patent office has been swamped by a two- to three-year backlog of applications since 2012. Nat Watkins, Wired, 15 Mar. 2022 The patent office in 2017 ruled that the Broad patents didn’t interfere. Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2022 See More